One homeless man in Miami is being reunited with family members he hasn’t seen in almost 40 years, thanks to the power of YouTube and Facebook. Isaac Avila, 65, who goes by the name Chico, has been roaming the streets of Downtown Miami for 10 years, reports WSVN, a local South Florida news station. Avila […]

When you’re the president of the United States, the rules of social media don’t apply. With more than 6 million followers on Instagram, Obama has the most followers of any world leader. He’s followed in a distant second by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with 2 million. Egyptian President Abdelfattah el-Sisi rounds out the top […]

Like most people I know, I’ve been an avid Facebook and LinkedIn user for years. But there was one platform I never appreciated much: Twitter. I’m not sure why, but I never connected with Twitter — until now. I recently started using the platform, and I now think it’s just plain awesome. In addition to […]

LinkedIn is clearly the place to be when it comes to professional networking. Its features make it the best social media resource for supporting all aspects of network building. When used appropriately, these features provide an unparalleled opportunity for expanding and bolstering your brand. But it can all go wrong if you do any of […]

Facebook wants to keep up with the rapid rate at which people in emerging markets are coming online for the first time, often on slow mobile connections. On Wednesday, Facebook announced it is launching two changes to its Android mobile app with the goal of making News Feed a better experience for users with slow Internet speeds globally. […]

Facebook’s making some of its users feel a lot older than they really are. The social network sent automated messages Thursday inviting some users to celebrate “46 years of friendship on Facebook” with one or more of their online friends. That’s odd, since Facebook only started in 2004. And some people who got the message […]

Facebook says its Professional Services local search site is an “early test” and, after speaking with the company, it seems they’re not like to to give it much promotion — at least not now. Facebook told me that the site has been live for “about a month,” but there have been no blog posts or […]

Google+ links and reviews are no longer being included in search results, even in searches for specific business names. This has been reported on via various sources around the web — including on Google+ and Local Search Forum. I have also confirmed via my own testing that Google+ is no longer being included searches which […]

“Twitter is stupid and Instagram is Twitter for people who can’t read” — 2 Broke Girls I disagree. Until last week I never heard this quote before and now every time I watch a CBS television show on demand I am tormented by those words. Some of my friends know I have spent most of […]

From the outside looking in, social media and SEO look like separate aspects of Internet marketing but there’s a very real connection. Identifying where one starts and the other stops is sometimes impossible. Social media’s relationship to SEO. When examining the relationship between social media and SEO, you’ll hear industry experts discuss correlation vs. causation. Does social […]